top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-09-12

First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/the-first-gear-discovered-in-nature-15916433

13 years ago

641 upvotes – 183 comments

Twitter Files For IPO

http://allthingsd.com/20130912/twitter-files-for-ipo/?mod=atdtweet

13 years ago

447 upvotes – 223 comments

Dropbox opening my docs?

http://www.wncinfosec.com/dropbox-opening-my-docs/

13 years ago

410 upvotes – 125 comments

Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 250 comments

Black Perl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

13 years ago

330 upvotes – 67 comments

Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

https://wit.ai

13 years ago

321 upvotes – 95 comments

Shot tower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 79 comments

Cocktails for programmers

https://github.com/the-teacher/cocktails_for_programmers/blob/master/cocktails_for_programers.md

13 years ago

★ 2.2k
258 upvotes – 169 comments

H2 {position: sticky} [video]

https://air.mozilla.org/intern-presentation-ford

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 88 comments

"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."

http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2013/09/stupid/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 114 comments

Bruce Schneier has changed his PGP key to 4096 bits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376954

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 139 comments

How Chris McCandless Died

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/how-chris-mccandless-died.html

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 129 comments

Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/12/michael-dell-buys-back-pc-company-founded

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 118 comments

How Apple hides new functionality in iOS: isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive

https://github.com/JaviSoto/iOS7-Runtime-Headers/commit/6ccf9c4526992fec0dc414d48e4a3f7446e9822f#commitcomment-4059894

13 years ago

★ 979 Objective-C
200 upvotes – 115 comments

Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/the-unexpected-result-of-fingerprint-authentication-that-you-cant-take-the-fifth/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 135 comments

Coder for Raspberry Pi

http://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 33 comments

Phonebloks

http://phonebloks.com/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

Notes on Intel Microcode Updates

http://inertiawar.com/microcode/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 32 comments

The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/61021544789/stop-trying-to-force-the-startup-life-on-everyone-it

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments
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